INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Nutrition Project Team Leader

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.

Date: December 23, 2020

Vacancy No. 073/20

Salary: USD 992

No of positions; 1(one)

Type of Employment- Temporary for 6 months

Duty base: South Gondor (Ebinet)

 Dead Line: 10 days from the date of advertisement

Objective: The purpose of the Nutrition Team Leader (NTL) position is to provide overall leadership, coordination and supervision of developmental interventions and staff in the Woreda. S/he ensures Government and CARE’s project implementation; monitoring, evaluation guidelines and plans are followed in the woredas to effectively contribute to the achievement of project results and CARE's strategic objectives to address underlying causes of poverty and food insecurity, and gender inequality.  

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

Planning and Implementation of Program Activities

• Facilitates and ensures that the plan at Zone/woreda/PA/village level is prepared with full participation of the community and partners;
• Ensures that planning and implementation of the project activities are in accordance with the program principles, approaches, and procedures of the organization;
• Ensures targeting for project beneficiaries are made in participatory manner and coordinate implementation of therapeutic feeding program and target supplementary feeding program;
• Works closely with woreda and zone partners in planning, implementing and monitoring and evaluation of the project activities;
• Make sure that CMAM nurses have their plans broken down to annual, quarterly and weekly basis and same is done by other staff members;
• Supports the development of woreda and zone level plan including the activities of health, nutrition and food security projects as being the integral part of the overall woreda and zone plan;

Monitoring and Supervision and Capacity Building

• Supports and coordinates needs assessment, at Zone woreda partners, PA and village level community institutions, for the capacity building in relation to the projects implementation strategies, methodologies, and activities;
• Organizes and facilitates joint participatory monitoring programs with the woreda partners and community groups, both technical and management bodies, document lessons and provide feedback to the project office;
• Facilitates and encourages regular review meeting and project review schedules at woreda level and help the different institutions have its institutionalized commitment;
• Supports and build the capacity of the front line staffs to have deeper understanding of the different technical areas of the projects, participatory monitoring and evaluation, cross cutting issues and including community empowerment, program approach and right based approach;

Facilitate Learning and Net Working

• Establishes firm and institutionalized working relationship with local officials, community institutions and other stake holders;
• Prepares regular project progress up dates at woreda level and discuss with representatives of the woreda;
• Represents CARE at Zone and Woreda level as required;
• Ensures that organizational core values, policies, procedures and program approaches are clearly understood and adhered to in the daily functioning of the Woreda office and that information to monitor project progress and organizational performance, including M & E data are collected and used for organizational learning, decision making, reporting, and for promoting innovations;

Reporting

• Develops appropriate reporting formats together with the LDM and other relevant technical staffs;
• Collects monthly and quarterly performance reports from relevant project staffs;
• Checks and confirm the correctness of the reported activities;
•  Prepare monthly, quarterly and final reports for the project and submit to the Project Manager. The report has to include the detail descriptions, challenges, problems faced and lessons learned in the reporting period.

Staff Supervision, Coaching and Team Building:

• Supervises all project staffs, give technical and management support;
• Support the development of high performing teams at the woreda and ensures that appropriate procedures and policies are followed.

Job Requirements

Education/Training

• BSc Degree in Health science, Nutrition, Nursing, Public Health officer

Experience

• 5 years experience in community participatory project implementation or related activities.

Competence

• Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, building partnerships, stress tolerance, building commitment, coaching, interpersonal skill, operational decision-making, planning and organizing, information Monitoring

How to Apply

 If you are interested to be part of our dynamic team, exciting work environment and contribute to CARE Ethiopia’s mission and vision, please send your CV (not more than 3 page) and cover letter (not more than one page) using one of the following options:

• Directly apply through Ethiojobs: www.ethiojobs.net
• Send your application by e-mail to: ETH.JobsHR@care.org
• Send your application through P.O. Box 4710 addressed to CARE Ethiopia, Human Resources Unit, Addis Ababa
• Apply in person to one of CARE Ethiopia Offices in Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa, Borena, Hawassa, Semera, Chiro, Debre Tabor, Dilla and Filtu

 Note: On the subject Line, please clearly write the position you are applying " Nutrition Team Leader- South Gondor ". Your application will be automatically disqualified, if you fail to do so. 

Passionate and dedicated candidates who meet the requirement are strongly encouraged to apply, especially women

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.